Quotes About Ethics

Humanae Vitae, or our own bishops

Holiness doesn't require a halo, folded hands, or an otherworldly preoccupation.

truth, she didn't care for rules of any sort; rules made little sense to a person who had grown up in a world without compassion or pity, where there was no moral code by which to abide.

You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.

There were sinister aspects of magic, and what you brought into this world was your responsibility, to deal with forevermore.

Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold.

In truth, she didn't care for rules of any sort; rules made little sense to a person who had grown up in a world without compassion or pity, where there was no moral code by which to abide.

A system of morality tells us what to do and what not to do, but it cannot tell us what we should feel. Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated.

What good is it if you read Plato and never clean your toilet? asked my mother, reverting to the values of Jubilee.

So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.

Her father was outraged. "Now you sell your stories, how soon before you will sell yourself?

El Mundo me considera un Monstruo y no tengo nada en contra de eso, aunque de paso podría decir que a los que sueltan bombas o queman ciudades o matan de hambre o asesinan a cientos de miles de personas normalmente no se los considera Monstruos sino que les llueven medallas y honores, pues solo los actos contra pocas personas se consideran malos y terribles. Lo cual no es una excusa sino una simple observación.

What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors

We do not believe in heaven or hell...; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt.

The Lord don't like ugly, she say. And he ain't stuck on pretty.

How peculiar it feels to speak about health care in America taking care of people's health while our government bombs the limbs off children in faraway lands. And starves and imprisons not a few of them at home. How odd that it seems not obviously known that true health care must mean, at minimum, deliberate non-harming of anyone?

that human compassion is equal to human cruelty and that it is up to each of us to tip the balance. I

Nobody feel better for killing nothing. They feel something is all.

On entering a place where animals are bred, my first thoughts are always about enslavement. Force. Captivity.

Her senior thesis was based on the notion that no one should be allowed to own more land than could be worked in a day, by hand.

Others who were always within their rights to pay him practically nothing for his labor.

work to make the routine drinking of bottled water a distant nightmare. Water was not meant to be polluted, any more than human blood, which is mostly water, is meant to be contaminated. How dare we bring anyone into the world who must, anywhere on earth, run from rain?

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.